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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Sarah, this is dfrag asking the questions, questioning the answers,

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having a physical conversation with everything that is you. We

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depend so much on other people giving us direction and

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we forget that the inner part of us is a compass.

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It knows, you've always known, it's given to you at birth.

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But we let other people's decisions control everything that we're doing.

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Ask the questions, question the answers. I do it in

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a journal, and then we do this vocal defragging where

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we're out on a transition walk, strolling through this beautiful

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forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. Sadly, you can't hear

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all the birds, but you can hear other things, maybe

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the wind, the rain that's building up. There are things

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around us every day, but we're not aware of it.

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And I think that's going to be our subject today

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on defray, is that what are you ignoring that's happening

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around you and why are you ignoring it?

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Speaker 3: That's a tough cookie to bite into.

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Speaker 2: Because we are a content driven nation, especially after the

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lockdown for COVID nineteen, we instantly went to those smartphones,

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those computers. We were doing whatever we could to clog

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up our minds so we didn't have to think about

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this mysterious thing that was happening to not just your city,

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but the rest of the world. Because I'm a martial artist,

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what happens is is that I'm very much aware of

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I've had to grow into that pair of shoes. When

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I go into a restaurant, I don't sit with my

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back to the door. No, I said, I have the

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way we're trained, I have to become aware of My

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dog Jazzy is the same way. She has to know

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everything that's taking place. She is aware. But the thing

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that gets me, and it reminds me so much of

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the people that I know, and you might be one

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of them.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not gonna say this is wrong.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, through awareness, Jazzy, well look at things

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behind us, where we've been, and she wants to go

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back to where we've been. That's a heavy duty subject.

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How often do you see what needs to be accomplished,

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but you find yourself looking over your shoulder because something

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back there has your attention. Was it something that you

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didn't finish, You didn't get enough praise for.

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Speaker 3: What's back there.

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Speaker 2: Now people will always tell me that, man, you keep journals.

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You've been writing for twenty nine years. But dude, here's

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the thing. You can go back and you can reread

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your life anytime you want. I can, that is the truth,

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But I don't. I don't go anywhere near it. I

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really don't. And the reason being is because when you're

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living a lifestyle of what is mindful in your present

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place of now, it's more difficult to go into your

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past because you've trained yourself to be right here. Yeah,

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I keep it with d frag journal. I think I

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write more in my d frag journal than I do

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in my morning journal. And the reason being is because

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there's so much moving through us at all times. I

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think you should start your own vocal d frag put

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it on your smartphone. When something is moving through you

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just put it down, record it, and then come back

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to it and say damn. Because I made myself aware

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of what was moving through me in that moment of now,

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I'm able to learn from it. That's not living in

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your past. That's speaking to your future self. You know,

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you didn't know what being in the twelfth grade was

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all about. In the first grade, you just knew it

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was really cool to be away from the house for

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a few hours a day. And by the time you

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got to the twelfth grade, unless you love school, you

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were doing everything you could to take study hall or

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get out there in that park because you skip school.

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But taking vocal notes understanding that through awareness that you

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become a greater student. My pastor today, Stephen Ferdick, brought

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up something very interesting, and once again, this is not

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a judgment, this is not anything but just having a

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conversation with you. The subject was based on our instruments.

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What are the instruments that we were given that we

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tend to ignore, we let other people have. We think

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that it's a strength, and when it's not a strength,

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then we try to go create other musical instruments or

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drawing instruments, talking instruments. We try to go and get

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an app for this and an app for that, And

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what happens is that we clog up ourselves and that

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that real instrument that we're supposed to be holding is

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just sitting there. His example was a guitar, an electric

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guitar in the wrong hands.

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Speaker 3: That guitar is silent. In the right hands, it plays

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the music.

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Speaker 2: So I ask you about that personally, not to steal

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from my pastor I'm not because it was planted and

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it's growing. What instrument do you have that is in

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the wrong hands? And when I say that, you know

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where I'm going with this, because you know how I

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feel about other people using our instruments. I don't like

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it when people put with my toys. I don't like it.

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My mom used to say, you're not nice to people.

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She would always say things like, now, son, you need

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to learn how to share. You need to learn how

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to share. Well, it took a little bit to get

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me to learn how to share, a couple bops up

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side the head and getting beat up by my brothers

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and sisters.

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Speaker 3: Then, you know, because they wanted what I had.

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Speaker 2: They wanted my instrument, especially when it came to what

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I had in my early breeding days of wanting to

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be in radio. Hey he has records. Hey he's got

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a turntable. Hey he's got speakers. I want, I want,

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I want, And so I would have to share my

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instruments it didn't change. And I'm sure you're in the

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same boat that. When you share your skills, your gifts

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other people, especially in the business world, they like to

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take what you have and they like to benefit what

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it is that they want to bring forward through the

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avenues of success. And where is your instrument in all

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of that. Everybody is trying to steal your instrument. But

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if it's in the right hands, then your instrument is

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strong and it makes a difference. Through awareness, we find

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out more about ourselves. That's dfragging and on a vocal

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dfrag when you drop your vocals down and you go

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back and listen to it. It's not like a thought

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because you can change your thoughts at the drop of

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a hat. But when you physically hear yourself going through

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the motions of thinking out loud, your instrument becomes stronger.

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Ask yourself the questions, question the answers. It's so simple,

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yet so challenge